Installation

Getting binary package

Binary builds are hosted at bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/restlessmonkey/lfstop/downloads

There go all the released binaries.

For example:

lfstop-2.0.7-windows-i686.zip

lfstop-2.0.7-linux-i686.tar.gz

The first one is for Windows systems, the other one is for Linux. They are just archives with binaries, libraries and some data files needed to run LFSTop.

Normally big software products have installer for Wwindows systems, or distribution-specific packages for linux and other UNIX-like systems. I decided to provide just simple binary archives.

Building from Source

Here it is expected that you have some experience in compiling C++ programs for your platform.

Rationale

Why to build it yourself?

• You can get 64bit binary, while LFStop binary packages are 32 bit.
• You can tune compiler for your platform/liking.
• You can disable all the debug-friendly options (which I, however, do not recommend to do, unless you test the program enough with your workflow)
• You join the development ofcourse!

Requirements

• C++ compiler with c++11 support. Tested with gcc 4.8.2 (and newer).

  You can also use MSVC Update 3 (or newer) on Windows.

• Qt Core, and Qt Networking libraries version 5.3 or higher (and also, Qt Tests lib for building tests) (TODO disable tests when no tests lib or just to speed up release preparation maybe)

• CMake 3.0.0 or newer.

Invoking cmake and building

Normally it will look like this:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/bob/lfstop ~/path/to/sources

Given it run successfully, on Linux you would normally run:

make install

Depending on what toolchain you use on windows, you either run something like:

mingw32-make install

Or you get Visual Studio solution which you build from there.